Every student at Joliet West knows and dreads the term Random Search. When a random search occurs the security and deans say that they are searching for anything that can posed as a threat to the students’ safety. However, most...

Festivals are almost as synonymous with Chicago as New York City is with Times Square. Throughout the year, the Windy City hosts a variety of events that attract large crowds to music, food, and more. The majority of these festivals...

Have you ever heard the saying “leave good enough alone”? Well, West does not believe in this, and suggests that good is just not good enough.
When it comes to our sports fields and facilities, we rank about average....

First we had Miguel Acosta who earned a full-ride scholarship to DePaul for soccer, and now there is another Tiger on their way to free college due to outstanding athletics. It is my pleasure to continue to write these stories...

Congratulations to Lizette Arias for being chosen to have her design on the cover of the 2010-2011 yearbook! The theme this year is "Socially Connected," a tie-in to teens’ increasing dependence on technology and social networ...

Facebook has over 500 million active users with an average of 130 friends who spend 700 billion minutes socially connecting per month. Facebook has entered our lives, for better or worse. Glancing through many of Joliet West student’s...

“Make sure you’re home by curfew.” These words tend to echo in the average teenagers mind as they count down the days until their eighteenth birthday, where at least the city curfew laws no longer apply. That is, unless...

It's the last week of first semester, you've got all of your hardest finals on the day after tomorrow, and to top it off, it's 7:30 AM and five degrees below freezing. In order to compensate for your decision to stay up late on...

As the wrestling season started, so did the fight against ring worm. Ring worm is a skin disease that is easily transferred from person to person and survives greatly in the hot moist atmosphere of the wrestling room. Ring worm...